Sentences with phrase «allow more charters»

For years, advocates of charter schools have pressed legislators to pass a law that would allow more charters to operate in North Carolina.

The president and I have expended a great deal of political capital urging states to lift charter caps and allow more charters to open — and states are responding.

Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch has said legislators should allow more charters and former state Education Commissioner John King told The Post the legislature should «eliminate the cap completely.»

Cuomo had wanted to raise the cap to allow more charters, but as of now that will be taken up at another time — likely later in the session.

Our bid was rejected because the Teachers Union stooped common - sense education reforms like allowing more charter public schools and demanding more accountability from teachers in the classroom.»

Teachers» unions and Democrats who dominate the Assembly were pleased to beat back the tax credit, while the religious organizations and charter school advocates who supported the measure were tided over with money and changes that will allow more charter schools to open in New York City.

When the need is so great, the demand so strong, and the supply so skimpy, why not allow more charter schools to serve more children?

If passed, this would lift arbitrary caps on funding and allow more charter schools to open, but it has strong opposition funded by state and national teachers unions.

The mayor of Los Angeles has criticized the L.A. Unified school district for not allowing more charter organizations to take over low - performing district schools when the district considered bids last February.

Should they vote to allow more charter schools?

For example, New York made some important adjustments to its cap to allow more charter public school growth in New York City and more charter - authorizing activity by the State University of New York.

Fast forward 23 years and it is the threat of a ballot question allowing more charter schools that is stirring Beacon Hill to action.

On the 74, Richard Whitmire wonders why parents and teachers in wealthy communities like Newton, Massachusetts, are so actively fighting a ballot initiative that would allow more charter schools to open in other areas in the state.

A bill to allow more charter schools for certain groups of students — such as minorities or those with disabilities — to open each year was scuttled as the Idaho Legislature focused mostly on regular public schools, which face the worst budget year for public education in the state's history.

For school choice to work, Butcher said, policymakers should give families vouchers to attend private schools, and allow more charter schools to open.

Massachusetts strengthened its application by passing legislation in January allowing more charter schools.

Allowing more charters without planning and oversight prevents communities from stable, safe schools where children can learn from great teachers.

The study seems likely to inform the long - running debate over whether Massachusetts should allow more charter schools.

As voters decide whether to allow more charter schools, a Globe review has found that the schools enroll English - language learners at much lower rates than those in traditional systems, even as many charter schools have been stepping up efforts to recruit more of the students.

Governor Charlie Baker proposed legislation Thursday that would allow more charter schools to open statewide, setting the stage for a Beacon Hill battle on one of the most divisive issues facing lawmakers.

The question was defeated with 62 % voting against the measure and 38 % voting in favor of lifting the cap and allowing more charter schools in Massachusetts.

Last November the charter school industry in the Bay State tried to push through a state - wide ballot initiative that would have allowed more charter schools to be opened in the Commonwealth.

In the run - up to a November ballot initiative that would allow more charter schools to open in Massachusetts, charter and traditional public schools have been cast in an adversarial relationship.

In Tennessee, Gov. Phil Bredesen, also a Democrat, pushed the Legislature to pass laws allowing more charter schools and making student test scores 50 percent of annual teacher evaluations.

In the run - up to the competition, 13 states changed their laws to create or allow more charter schools in their states, and at least 41 states have agreed to enact common academic standards in English and math.

Not exact matches

For its part, the government provided liquidity via the CMHC and the Insured Mortgage Purchase Program (IMPP), which allowed chartered banks to trade mortgage assets for more liquid CMHC paper.

Republican state Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan will insist that more charter schools be allowed to open in New York City as part of any deal to extend Mayor de Blasio's authority over the public - school system, The Post has learned.

The deal also includes measures to increase the charter schools cap, and would allow 134 more charter schools upstate and 50 more downstate.

But Ms. Moskowitz has far more power outside the political machine than she ever did within it, forging a close bond with the governor that allowed her to secure unprecedented protections for charter schools in last year's legislative session.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

Each played a role in the breakdown: Mr. Flanagan, who demanded more charter schools in exchange for giving Mr. de Blasio an extension; Carl E. Heastie, the Assembly speaker, refused that demand, and said that he would no longer allow mayoral control to be used as a bargaining chip.

Cuomo's allies at the State University of New York would issue regulations allowing more uncertified teachers at charter schools — something they had sought and the Assembly had fought — that would let Flanagan and Senate Republicans claim a win.

The state Senate did its duty by New York's public - school children yesterday, passing a bill that would more than double the number of charter schools allowed to operate statewide — without the usual poison pills meant to strangle the wildly successful charter movement by stealth.

Mahoney says the county would do even more if it was allowed by the county charter or state law, but some agencies like Veteran's Services are required to have their own department.

The language of the so - called «Big Ugly,» the 72 - page bill with all the legislative changes from this session, allows for 50 slots from the overall cap to be «granted to a charter for a school to be located in a city having a population of one million or more.»

Her first term expires at the end of next year and the city charter only allows one more term.

Martins has proposed a new Code of Ethics that would include more expansive financial disclosure requirements from elected officials and policymakers; strengthening the county's Ethics Board to conduct more through investigations of misconduct, and changing the county charter to allow indicted elected officials to be recalled from office through a public referendum.

De Blasio has been criticized by both charter supporters and opponents in recent weeks, after he allowed more than a dozen co-locations approved under Michael Bloomberg to proceed, but blocked co-locations for three of Eva Moskowitz's Success Academy schools.

A key state senator says that if Mayor de Blasio wants Albany to extend mayoral control over the city's public schools, he's going to have to allow a lot more charter schools in the Big Apple.

But after consulting with the city Law Department, the commission found that the charter, in fact, did allow them to take the maps back from the Council and hold more public hearings.

In studying the simple and immensely practical question of how charter schools handle teacher retirement when state law allows them to opt out of the state's pension system, Podgursky and Olberg examine just how much rethinking charters are doing when it comes to the familiar, expensive, and binding routines of schooling — and what lessons that holds for schools more broadly.

He says, «The superintendents were far more defensive about and married to the status quo than anybody else we were dealing with...» Just as it would be an inherent conflict to put McDonald's in charge of determining whether or not others should be allowed to open a new restaurant nearby, Engler reasoned that charter school authorizers should be outside the control of the traditional K — 12 system.

In Massachusetts, where residents will soon vote in a referendum on whether to allow the creation of more charter schools, pro-charter groups are running tv ads including the one shown above.

Allowing charter schools to access the zoning exemptions that districts use to turn commercial facilities into schools would also open up more options.

In Massachusetts, where residents will soon vote in a referendum on whether to allow the creation of more charter schools, pro-charter groups are running tv ads.

Outwardly, Success is similar to other «no excuses» (Moskowitz dislikes that term) charter schools: students are called «scholars» and wear uniforms; a longer school day and year allow for about one - third more instruction time than district schools provide; rooms are named after the teacher's alma mater; a culture of discipline and high expectations reigns.

Advisors in the state department of education, the governor's office, and the General Assembly had suggested that while a complete overhaul of the charter school law would be politically impossible, a «carve - out» within the charter school law to allow for a new, more autonomous type of charter school might be achievable.

But they're onto one decent idea: allowing charter schools more say over who attends them, thereby helping them to specialize in more of the niches that parents favor.

But as long as lousy charters are allowed to languish, the many critics of charters — teachers unions and superintendents who dislike the competition — can successfully stave off more charters capable of saving millions of students from academic abysses.

In a dramatic turnaround from its previous strong support for charter schools, the Buffalo, N.Y., school board voted last week to impose a one - year moratorium on allowing more of the independently operated public schools.